Good practices to post a Mandala in the Mandala festival.


1.       Play around like small children, making an error is OK J
2.       Have fun, enjoy.
3.       Click a picture 
4.       Reduce the size of the picture so that it opens in less than 5 seconds
5.       Post it in the group along with an explanation.
a.       Just like the human body and the mind, the picture is the body and the explanation/reflection is the mind
b.      The energy is the Aura, depicted by the picture and the person who posts it.
6.    Explanations

a.       Explanation / Reflection can be from various dimensions
                                                               i.      Emotional connect with the picture
                                                             ii.      Patterns identified based on the picture
                                                            iii.      Relationship with the picture
                                                           iv.      Science of the picture
                                                             v.      Fantasy about the picture
                                                           vi.      Story or poem based on the picture
                                                          vii.      Etc..
b.      Its not just a judgment about the picture, it’s the connect of the person who is posting and who is reading the picture which matters.  

7.       Post only one mandala picture per day and its explanation / reflection
8.       Most important:  Appreciate for the person posting the mandala, not just judgements about the mandala.
9.       Understand that the signature of the person is not the Person,  Similarly the picture you post is not you or the mandala, the Aura behind it is, the dimension behind it is.  Please explain your connect.  Mandalas are  cryptograms concerning the state of the self at the point of time you identify the picture.
10.   Have FUN,  Allow the festival spirit to channel though you.
11.   Enjoy  

Details on reflection
Explanation/ Reflection is the key.

Reflective practice is, in its simplest form, thinking about or reflecting on what you do. It is closely linked to the concept of learning from experience, in that you think about what you did, and what happened, and decide from that what you would do differently next time.

Reflective practice and understanding is the ability of the person to verbalize what he or she has visually/experience that has been created.

Reflective distance is a feedback system for the individual’s interaction with the media; the cognitive distance between the art experience and the thinking and the individuals reflection upon that experience.

Example 1:


The Mandala of balance. The Centre of gravity being the core, just like any human beings should anchor to their core. Picture taken at Rishikesh. While on a forest trek.

Example 2:
The mandala drawing to help me in building a pattern of doing the same thing again and again, Different emotion, but same action. Colors to represent my emotion and my need to play around, lines representing my need to stay structured. 

Example:3

Was listening to the story of Rumi from a friend, kept drawing and this is what appeared. 
Intuition and logic performing inside
Picture and lines playing outside
Lost in the world of fantasy and grounding into the gross. 
Love for the poem and the art 
burning out of the heart. 

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Mandala festival 2018

To Join the whatsapp group for the joy of sharing festival, 

Mandala(s)

A mandala (Sanskrit: मण्डल, lit, circle) is a spiritual and ritual symbol in different religions, representing the universe. 
Its was also widely used by different people to understand different perspectives.

In common use, "mandala" has become a generic term for any diagram, chart or geometric pattern that represents the cosmos metaphysically or symbolically; a microcosm of the universe

This same root is used in English to describe ourselves we say man+kind which means an essence within a kindred; 

A man+(u)script is an essence expressed though words. A man+tra is an essence captured within a sound. The word mandala itself comes from the ancient text of Sanskrit and is derived of the root  ‘man+da+la’ which means container which holds the essence (Aura). 

Mandala Festival

Contact Admins on Whatsapp: 
Anita : 9942081079
Prasad : 9003700495
Sivashree : 9244525466

Theme of the festival:
Being aware of  "your expressions" or "expressions of the universe"  and viewing it from the mandala perspective.

When ? 
Online Mandala festival starts on October 14th  2018 and till October 18th 2018 on whatsapp
Celebration at Pavithram on 19th October 2018, starts at 3pm till 7.30pm 

Who can join ?
Anyone having the willingness and readiness to participate, create or identify content, click photos and publish in the "Mandala festival 2018" whatsapp group. 

What to do ?
. You can create or identify a Mandala from the nature around.
. Click a photo
. Share it in the "Mandala festival 2018" whatsapp group
. Write 5 sentences about it, under the picture, in the group
. Share one picture everyday for 5 days from Oct.14th till Oct. 18th

Its all about:
. Walking the path together and separately
. Sharing the expression, learning and enjoying what we do together! 
. Flowing together
. Understanding and relating
. Developing the capacity to create or identify from the creation. 
. Utilizing the mind through a mandala perspective
. Directing the energies towards a collective
. Celebrating creativity 
. The excitement of expressing
. Colors, lines, words, connecting, relating, group, team, togetherness, festivities etc.
. Inspiring 
. Having FUN :-) 

Different types of mandalas other than an typical mandala drawing.
Ever since the festival excitement started, there are a lot of questions regarding what is a mandala ? how can one classify or understand a mandala ? 

A Mandala is space/symbol of a COLLECTION of different things from the universe. Its a microcosm of the universe itself.

Mandala is a space/symbol of collection with a specific boundary (Enclosure). Its used to support the mind to understand the structural part of the perspective.

for example:
A flower is a collection of different petals,.. etc.
A tree is a collection of its branch and leaves,.. etc.
A idea is a collection of thoughts,.. etc.
A family is a collection of people together,.. etc.
A book is a collection of pages,.. etc.
A song is a collection of sounds,.. etc.
A human body is a collection of muscles, bones etc.
Mind is a collection of memory, thoughts, intelligence etc.
A story is a collection of incidents etc. described by the author
A ceiling fan is a mandala both in terms of visual representation as well as the mechanics
A Dish, 
A festival, 
A day, 
A clock,
An hour, 
A process,
A class room
A forest
A garden
A Farm
A talk
A plan
A mountain
A volcano
A thunder storm
An earthquake
A community living together
A bee hive
A flock of birds 
A road map 
A group of dancers, marathon runners,
A house, a home,
Drama
Dance
Marathon, hockey, basketball, football
An experience.. etc.

You can also see different dimensions in the same mandala

for example:A human being playing football. The game football is a mandala, each player is a mandala, the ground is a mandala, the team all together is a mandala, both teams together is a mandala, goal keeper is a mandala with a certain perspective.  

In short: Mandala is a perspective of a collective.

Everything in the universe can be viewed as a Mandala or different mandalas, separately or together with convergence or expansion, interdependent or independent or dependent.

For the mandala festival we use only mandala's which can be photographed and written about.

Dos and Don't in the "Mandala festival 2018"  whatsapp group

Do (s)
You can post one line (10 words max) appreciative comment about the  mandalas posted online.

Don't (s)
Please do not take pictures from the internet and post it in the group, all pictures posted has to be from a first hand content. 

Do not use or click pictures of pictures or drawings created by others. Post only originals clicked from nature by you or created by the help of an art form by you.

Do not stay in the group without participating  (Participating means "Posting the required content")

Do not post any other content, including thank you, sorry, apologies, birthday or other wishes, good morning, festivalwishes in the whatsapp group "Mandala festival".

Do not engage in a conversation in the group.

Samples of the Mandala's posted in the Mandala fest in the year 2016